Dormagener quill pen
The Dormagener quill pen is a literary prize awarded by the city of Dormagen in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The award, endowed with 5,000 euros, is presented during the Dormagen Literature Days. It is aimed at authors who were either born on the Lower Rhine or who live there and whose work is either printed or available as a radio play. Authors can apply for the award themselves or be suggested by third parties. A three-person jury made up of literary scholars, journalists or authors decides on the award.
The prize was first awarded in 1979. At that time, the prize money was 6,000 DM, half of which was paid to the author before the start and half after the completion of a literary commissioned work. In 1980 Klas Ewert Everwyn was honored, who with his fictional work clearly took a position against the Bayer group and caused a scandal. The award helped to achieve the appropriate publicity, although the city of Dormagen failed to publish the extremely critical work. Instead, a citizens' initiative stepped in. As a result, Bayer sued the author, resulting in a lawsuit lasting years. The city therefore decided not to award the prize in the following years.
It was not until 1989 that the prize was awarded again. However, from now on a commissioned work was dispensed with.
The city of Dormagen has stopped awarding the prize.
Award winners
- 1979 - Josef Ippers ,
- 1980 - Klas Ewert Everwyn , The Dormagen Incident from 1996
- 1989 - Ingeborg Drews , poetry
- 1992 - Reinhard Kaiser , The cold summer of Dr. Polidori
- 1993 - Wolfgang Bittner , Narrengold
- 1997 - Okko Herlyn , Lower Rhine deity with two letters
- 2001 - Willihaben , ant summer
Individual evidence
- ^ Literature Prize Dormagener Federkiel in: Rheinische Post, January 14, 2001
- ↑ Der Dormagener Störfall, Klas Ewert Everwyn on: die-80er-fotoshow.de
- ↑ Liebesreim auf Deidesheim in: Die Zeit, 15/1997
- ↑ Dormagener quill pen at: Kulturpreise.de